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At The Buying Solution, we find and secure exceptional properties across the entire market in London quickly, efficiently and at the best possible price for retained clients. Over the years, we have become more accustomed to working with parents buying for children: be it for university requirements, helping them onto the ladder for the first…

Our Cotswold and Southern Teams recommend some of the best pubs in their areas to visit if escaping to the countryside this summer. The Cotswolds The Feathered Nest, Nether Westcote, Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire borders Smart pub with great food and four attractive bedrooms which lies between pretty market town of Stow-on-the-Wold and Burford in the heart of…

The link between schools and house prices is now an established fact – no longer just fodder for dinner party speculation. Thanks to a series of studies carried out by research organisations and the Department for Education (DfE), we now know in absolute terms that the best-performing state schools will push up property prices in…

LONDON GARDENS Kew Gardens, Richmond Why go: Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, it’s spectacular at all times of the year but in spring, don’t miss the flowering cherry tree avenue leading to the Temperate House, as well as the woodland garden which is filled with violets and trilliums. Contact: 020 8332 5655;…

Across all our regions and all price bands, we see a shortage of country houses coming to the market in 2017. As buying agents, we’re in the lucky position of finding out early which houses are due to be launched in the coming months so have a privileged long-view of the market. The “tip offs”…

It is out again, full of fascinating and useful information, facts and figures. The Knight Frank Rural Report is a bi-annual production which delves deep into all current rural matters. It should be read by all land and estate owners, not to mention their professional advisers. The report is insightful and progressive and I always…

There remains strong appetite for the very best in class estates, these would be within two hours of London to the west, unblighted and have 1,000 acres of mixed farm and amenity land, and a beautiful period, ideally not-too-large Georgian house in reasonably good condition. For an opportunity so rare it is likely that buyers…